D.W. Nance, LLC - Founding & Managing Member

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NEW ORLEANS 504.717.4730

AUSTIN 512.961.7127

Address Mail to: 3912 Constance Street, New Orleans, LA 70115

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Although our primary focus is on federal and state litigation (from litigation avoidance to trial up through any appeals), D.W. Nance, LLC is a general practice law firm with extensive experience in many areas of the law including business, contracts, Internet, criminal, entertainment, immigration, media, commercial and construction, and eminent domain law. While our primary goal is to help our clients avoid unnecessary litigation, Mr. Nance has over 10 years of first-chair experience in literally hundreds of administrative hearings, civil and criminal bench and jury trials and appeals.

The firm's managing member, David W. Nance, was born October 10, 1966 in El Paso, Texas. He speaks fluent English, German, Spanish and conversational Polish and French, having earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in German and Spanish from the University of Texas at Austin in 1990 and a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree in civil and common law from Loyola University School of Law, New Orleans in 1996, including a semester at the University of Vienna School of Law.

Mr. Nance has been an associate of Pünder, Volhard, Weber & Axster (merged with Clifford Chance in 2000) in Warsaw, Poland; of counsel for Muñoz de Toro &  Muñoz de Toro in Buenos Aires, Argentina; an Administrative Law Judge and an Assistant Attorney General, Transportation Division managing the Administrative Law and Contract/Construction Law sections representing the Department of Transportation for the State of Texas. Since entering private practice, he has served as General Counsel for numerous Internet-based and traditional companies across the U.S.

 

Practice Areas

Administrative
Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR) - mediation
Business - from startups to public companies
Class actions
Contracts
Construction (also highway construction and maintenance)
Corporate Counsel
Criminal
Cyber/Internet Law
Domain Name - counseling and dispute resolution
DUI
Elder Law
Entertainment
Family
Immigration - including deportation & asylum litigation
Intellectual Property - domain names, copyright, trademark and trade secrets
International - private & multinational organizations
Litigation - administrative and civil bench and jury trials and appeals (state and federal)
Media
Real Estate - including expropriation and inverse condemnation
Taxation
Wills/Trusts/Probate/Successions

 

State Supreme Courts

Florida
Louisiana
New York
Texas

 

Federal U.S. District Courts

Eastern District of Louisiana
Middle District of Louisiana         
Western District of Louisiana
Northern District of Texas
Southern District of Texas
Eastern District of Texas
Western District of Texas

 

Federal Circuit Courts of Appeals

Fifth Circuit

 

Legal Publications & Presentations

Lex Feuilleton columnist in Modern Domainer magazine

Author, "What You Need to Know About DotAsia" in the June/July 2007 edition of Modern Domainer magazine

Co-Author/Co-Speaker, “Handling Fraudulent Construction and Maintenance Claims” for TxDOT, Construction and Maintenance Division, Annual Construction Conference, March 2005

Author/Speaker, “L’État, c’est moi: Suggested Methods for Enforcing Administrative Laws Ethically, Professionally, Efficiently, and Successfully,” for OAG, Transportation Division, Ethics/Professionalism in Administrative Law, March 12, 2004

Co-Author/Co-Speaker, “E.D. JURISDICTION: How to Get and Keep the Right to Take Land” for OAG, Transportation Division, Eminent Domain Law Conference, December 18, 2003

Author "Real Estate: Poland" in the October 1998 edition of International Financial Law Review

Wrote "Corporate Governance: Poland" in the April 1998 edition of International Financial Law Review

Author "Doing Business in Europe: Poland" in the June/July 1997 edition of AsiaLaw